Rain rain rain, then grey skies. It wasn’t until gone three that it finally cleared up, so I decided to make the best of what remained of the day and head out to try and find another geocache. It didn’t go well. It was down on an old disused railway line, which has lain dormant since 1953. Quite picturesque, very green and fresh, and totally deserted, but muddy, too.
I’d taken the Chinese worry beads I’d picked up in the first cache yesterday afternoon, planning on leaving them in this cache for someone else, but despite making it to the coordinates and finding a fallen mossy log (one of the clues) I couldn’t find the cache box anywhere. I spent about half an hour tramping around in the nettles looking for it and almost slipped into a stream at one point, but had to admit defeat, and headed back to the car.
I’d arranged to meet up with Mark. There should have been a dozen of us, and we were going to watch this year’s Eurovision preview DVD, but in the end it was just the two of us, so we played Russian roulette with his videos and ended up watching A Song for Europe from 1990. Terrible songs, terrible fashion, terrible hair on Terry terrible Wogan. I can’t believe the oversized suits and nasty hairdos they all had were acceptable back then. Neither can I believe that I’m now twice as old as I was back then.
On a side note, Balazs drew my attention to the Degree Confluence Project today, on account of it having interesting parallels to geocaching. It’s a far simpler idea: simply that you visit every coordinate integer (eg N 53, W 01) and take a photo there. Every point in the UK has already been done, to produce this gallery here.
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